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Article: PRONTO PASTA SALAD BY JANE SNOW KNIGHT RIDDER.(FOOD)(Recipe)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- June 20, 2003
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A box of horror is lurking in the cupboard of a relative or friend. It could attack your taste buds at any moment.
Be afraid. Be very afraid of ``instant'' pasta salads that come in a box. They are no quicker to make than homemade pasta salad, and they taste like a chemistry experiment.
Want proof? Here's a partial ingredients list of one product we tested last week: modified corn starch, sugar, maltodextrin, corn syrup, whey, artificial flavor, monosodium glutamate, hydrolyzed corn protein, disodium guanylate, disodium inosinate and soy flour. The second-most plentiful ingredient, after macaroni, is salt.
Yum.
Despite the salty, ...